Book of the month
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Our pick for April 2023 Book Of The Month is…
The Translator by Harriet Crawley
Set in Moscow and centred on a devastating Russian plot to sabotage the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK, this is not only a sizzling and pacy thriller, but a passionate love story between two people determined to stop this cataclysmic act
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